Is the postpartum restraint useful? How long after giving birth can the restraint be used?

In order to maintain their figure, mothers who have just given birth will choose to use postpartum binding belts to prevent the growth of abdominal fat. Is this effective? How to use it?

Is it useful to wear a restraint belt to restore your figure after childbirth?

After ten months of pregnancy, mothers' bellies gradually grow. After giving birth, mothers feel that their bellies suddenly disappear. This is a momentary process. Many mothers will not adapt. At this time, many mothers are faced with the problem of loose abdominal fat. So how should we deal with this mass of meat? This is the most concerned issue for mothers, generally speaking. Mothers all know that they need to use a strap. When choosing a strap, you should use a light pressure type, not a heavy pressure type. Because the squeezing rod of the heavy pressure type strap is too strong. It is impossible to stick to it at all. The advantage of the light pressure type is that it can put some pressure on our abdomen. It will not make you feel suffocated. Such a strap is more suitable, and it is necessary to wear it at intervals. Remember not to wear it 24 hours a day, because when using the strap, the muscles will not contract by themselves. The muscles will rely on the strength of the strap, become lazy and loose. So I hope you can wear it every other day, and then wear it every other day. The wearing time will not cause the lochia to not be eliminated. Therefore, the best time is to wear the strap after the lochia is completely clean.

Do mothers who give birth naturally or by caesarean section need to use a belly band? The mode of birth is the key to whether or not to use a belly band. For mothers who give birth by caesarean section, the simplest way to avoid pulling on the abdominal wound and causing pain during activities is to use a belly band. As for mothers who give birth naturally, it depends on their own physical condition.

Function of the binding belt: Although there are many choices of waist belts, strictly speaking, its main function is only one, that is, to fix the wound, and it is recommended for mothers who have had a caesarean section. The reasons include: 1. Fix the wound. Less restricted movement After the caesarean section, there will be a wound on the abdomen. Before the wound is healed, it is inevitable that there will be some pain. If the wound is accidentally pulled during movement, the pain will increase, making the mother even more afraid to get out of bed. The use of a belly belt can fix the wound and prevent the rectus abdominis from expanding outward during movement, causing pain or pulling of the wound, which is conducive to wound healing. If the mother does not have other discomfort after the operation, getting out of bed early is beneficial to the body's recovery. Therefore, doctors will recommend that mothers who have had a caesarean section use a belly belt after the operation. When the pain is not so strong, the mother will be relatively less reluctant to get out of bed. 2. Avoid lung inflammation. During the operation, the mother needs to be treated with anesthesia. Sometimes, the tracheal secretions will increase after the operation. If the mother cannot cough up the phlegm in time, it may cause fever and lung inflammation, delaying the recovery of body functions. However, because the mother is very likely to be involved in the wound and feel pain when coughing up phlegm, doctors will recommend that the mother wear a belly band after the operation before coughing up phlegm to relieve the pain and cough up the phlegm smoothly to shorten the recovery time. In view of this, the belly band has always been a recommended item for mothers who have undergone cesarean section. Usually after the mother has completed the operation and before getting out of bed, the medical staff in the postpartum ward will help the mother use the belly band, and then teach the mother how to use it by herself.

How long after giving birth can I use a belly band

Phase 1: Week 1 after childbirth: Helps the uterus and body functions recover

In order to prepare for the arduous task of "giving birth", pregnant women's joints and pelvis will become loose. In addition, due to the compression of internal organs during pregnancy, muscles and ligaments will inevitably be strained during the birth process, or the compression of wounds after cesarean section, when choosing slimming products in the early postpartum period, you should avoid binding too tightly. It is recommended to choose a gentle, comfortable and 24-hour-wearable abdominal binder, with moderate elasticity and easy-to-put-on-and-off compression pants, to give the uterus moderate pressure and help the body's functions slowly recover. At the same time, with moderate postpartum exercise, the pelvis and vagina can return to normal.

The second stage: Week 2 after delivery: Contract the abdomen and restore the abdominal wall

After a period of adjustment and rest, most mothers' body functions and physical strength have returned to normal, but the recovery speed of the abdominal wall after childbirth is not as fast as the contraction of the uterus, so it is easy to form a cavity in the abdomen and cause fat accumulation. If you only want to rely on your original strength to restore your figure, you have to spend more energy.

It is recommended that pregnant mothers use a strong abdominal binder on the abdomen during the day. Through strong tightening force, it can fit the abdominal wall tightly, eliminate fat accumulated in the lower abdomen, and help the rectus abdominis and left and right pelvis return to their original state. At night, it is recommended to change back to the comfortable wear of the first stage.

The third stage: 3rd week after delivery - 6 months after delivery: Strengthen and shape perfect curves

At this time, the internal organs that were originally pushed upward by the uterus will slowly return to their original positions, and the postpartum lochia will also decrease. Mothers can start to strengthen the curves according to the requirements of the body shape! It is recommended to change into more functional tights during the day. Through professional body shaping tailoring, it can achieve the strengthening effects of lower body compression, waist tightening, hip lifting and thigh firming, while accelerating the metabolism of fat cells to achieve the effect of slimming and sculpting. In addition, during pregnancy, calcium loss and poor postpartum adjustment can easily cause hunchbacks, sagging breasts, and slightly protruding lower abdomens, making it difficult to eliminate the fat from the lower chest to the waist.

Disadvantages of using a restraint belt after childbirth

It is human nature to love beauty. Many young mothers are particularly concerned about their body shape changes and think that tightening the abdomen after childbirth will help restore their body shape. Therefore, they prepare belly bands and fitness pants in advance before childbirth. When the child is born, it will wrap itself tightly from the hips to the abdomen, making it difficult to bend over. When they can get out of bed and move around, they will change into fitness pants and tighten them tightly on their bodies, hoping that this will restore their body shape.

Under normal circumstances, the reproductive organs in the female pelvis are maintained in their normal position by various ligaments and pelvic floor support tissues. During pregnancy, as the fetus grows and develops, a series of adaptive changes will occur in all systems of the mother, with the reproductive system changing the most, especially the uterus, whose volume and weight increase to about 18 and 20 times before pregnancy, respectively; the ligaments that fix the uterus also soften and stretch accordingly.

After delivery, the uterus begins to recover and can be lowered into the pelvis in about 10 days, but it takes 6 weeks to return to normal size. The ligaments that fix the uterus are slightly looser than before pregnancy due to excessive stretching during pregnancy. The vagina and pelvic floor support tissues have lost elasticity due to excessive stretching, expansion and damage during delivery and cannot fully return to their pre-delivery state. Affected by the expansion of the pregnant uterus, the abdominal wall relaxes after delivery and it takes about 6-8 weeks to gradually recover.

From the above situation, it can be seen that normal abdominal wrapping during the postpartum period not only does not help to restore the tension of the abdominal wall, but also increases abdominal pressure, which reduces the support of the posterior pelvic floor support tissue and ligaments to the reproductive organs, leading to uterine prolapse, severe retroversion and retroflexion of the uterus, and bulging of the anterior and posterior walls of the vagina. Due to the change in the normal position of the reproductive organs, the blood flow in the pelvic cavity is not smooth, the resistance is reduced, and various gynecological diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease, adnexitis, and pelvic congestion syndrome are easily caused, which seriously affects the health of the mother.

Due to pregnancy, the body metabolism of pregnant women is vigorous. In addition to providing for the needs of themselves and the fetus, they also need to accumulate about 5 kg of fat distributed in the chest, abdomen, and buttocks to provide energy for the late pregnancy, delivery and lactation, and more for lactation. This fat will not disappear quickly due to abdominal wrapping during the postpartum period.

To restore your body shape, one thing to do is to exercise after childbirth, do more leg lifts, sit-ups, etc., which can enhance the tone of your abdominal muscles, and the most important thing is breastfeeding.

According to research by French scientists, the fat accumulated in the buttocks is almost exclusively prepared for breastfeeding, so breastfeeding after childbirth can not only promote the recovery of the uterus, but also help restore the body shape. Breastfeeding is also very beneficial to the growth and development of newborns.

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